Bag-holder.



A. REIMBR.

' BAG HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED rmmv, 1911.

Patented Apr. 23, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

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OF STEINBACH, MANITOBA, CANADA.

BAG-HOLDER.

R ecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 27, 1911.

at 16 and 17 to form further ers. The loops 10, 11, 16 the horizontal in use the bag is placed t band thereof resting on the loops so that the end is held well open.

Patented Apr. 23, 19112. Serial.No. 611,075.

' gripping mem- Be it known that I, ABRAHAM REIMER, 0t d 17 t d i the village of Steinbach, in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag- .Holders, of which the following is the specification. i

My invention relates to bag holders, and the object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed, durable and easily opk erated holder which will eifectively hold a bag with the mouth thereof properly open for filling purposes when desired, such device being easily manipulated and adjustable to various heights and kinds of bags.

It consists essentially in a set of legs suitably reinforced, telescoping members carried by the legs, s'wingable grippin vices supported by the said legs anda ever for swinging the gripping devices, the parts being arranged and constructed as herein after more particularly described and claimed. J

Figure 1 is a front elevation of thebag holder in the position ready to receive a bag. Fig. 2 is aplan view of the device in the position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the bag holder with the parts in the position which they occupy when supporting the bag, a modified form being employed. Fig. 4! is a plan view of one of the grips. Fig. 5 is a detail view showingrod 13 asrit appears in side elevation.

In the drawing like I Bars 18 and 19 e. tend rearwardly from the said arms and are connected through links 20 and 21 with the enlarged end ofa lever 22, the lever being on a stub shaft 23 passing backunites the rod 8 with a cross rod 25 which closes the to. It is to the links are connected to the lever at points at the opposite sides of the shaft 23 so that the arms are swung outwardly when the lever is turned in the left hand direction as indicated by the arrow Fig. 1. The links 20 and 21 are each provided with a turn buckle 21' so that the length of the link can be adjusted. A weight 26 is secured to the lever.

As soon as the bag has been placed with the hand over the loops as already described, the lever is swung to the position shown in arm back to the original position.

Thcbag holder as above described will hold tightly all bags supplied with bands at their open end,. ut difhculty might be characters of referfigure.

1 and 2 represent two tubular legs having their lower ends forked and supplied with out a band, and for this purpose I have con rollers 3. The legs are united by a straight strurtcd the jaws 27 shown in detail in Fig. bar 4 and an arched brace 5 and are supj l and applied to the holder in Flg. 3 of the plied at their upper ends with ad usting drawing. These aws are formed with a nuts (5 and 7. j

T 8 is a stout-metal rod having itscnds tclcscoped within the legs 1 and 2 and the body portion thereof bent at 9 into the form of an open-sided rectangle, such rod l ving looped at 10 and 11 at the sides of the recj tangular portion to form gri 'iping members. The rod 8 forms what I term an adjustable supporting member and it carries the arms- 12 and 13, which arms are pivotally secured to the rods 8 at 14, H and l5, 15 at the top roughened or toothed face 28 and are supplied with adjusting screws 29 whereby they can be fastened to the arm and to the rod 8, respectively, directly above the lips or loops 16,11, 16 and 17, when a bandlcss bag is to be filled. The rough faces of the jaws will grip and hold any bag tightly once the lever is swung over.

If one desires, the jaws could be placed on the bag holder in the first instance, that is, when it is manufactured, and the lips entirely dispensed with. I have shown the is released from the holder bv swin 'ing the plane and when the holder is I lower horizontally disposed portionv of the Fig. 3 of the drawing, with the result that experienced-in supporting a large bag withloop, construction as it is avery cheap one and the holder so formed will accommodate by far the greater majority-of bags.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. The combination ,with an adjustable supporting member, of a set of similar arms pivotally secured to the supporting member and swingable toward and away from each other, gripping members carried by the arms and by the supporting member, such latter gripping members being located in a higher horizontalplane than the former, bars extending rearwardly from the arms, a pivotally mounted lever carried by the supporting member, links connecting the lever With the respective bars, and an adjustable weight carried by the lever, as and for the. purpose specified.

2. A bag holder comprising a set of similar opposing legs suitably interconnected at the bottom, an adjustable supporting mom ber carried by the legs and telescoping into the upper ends thereof, opposing arms pivot-ally secured 130 the supportingmember and-swingableto'ward and awayfrom each other, removable gripping jaws secured to the arms and to the supporting member in pairs, bars extending rearwardly from the arms, a stub shaft located centrallyof the supporting member, a lover pivoted on the stub shaft, links connecting the lever with the extending ends of the arms, and a Weight Y adjustably secured to the lever, thepurpose specified.

Signed at Steinbach, in the Province of Manitoba, this 29th day. of December, 1910.

ABRAHAM REIMER, Witnesses: j,

Jon. D. Goossmi, S. FRIESEN.

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